Why play Cleave if you can play Lacerate?

I know I know, we don't have full details yet... .

But from the demonstration video it is clear that Lacerate is mechanically VERY close to Cleave, nobody can deny that.

They also stated that if you hit an enemy with both slashes, Lacerate does more damage than Cleave to a single target.

=> So it is better single target than Cleave, AND has an equally nice AoE.
=> Why would you ever want to consider Cleave over Lacerate?

Well if you read it carefully, it says each does less than a single hit of cleave, but it doesn't state that it does more damage than a cleave itself. It just adds more hits into the mix and utilizing both weapons for each side, which would make the skill more finely tuned for a CoC setup.

I hope you are suggesting to buff cleave into lacerate's level of power and not nerf lacerate into cleave's level of power. I played a lot of cleave and i can honestly say that every other melee skill option is better lategame.

Cleave has a wider arc and does more single hit damage while Lacerate does less damage than Cleave per hit but in a longer range and only in the overlapping thin area more damage.